Move To Remove McCarran Statue From Capitol

By Staff&nbsp|&nbsp

Posted: Fri 8:41 AM, Mar 25, 2005&nbsp|&nbsp

Updated: Fri 7:08 PM, Mar 25, 2005

Nevada Congresswoman Shelley Berkley saysshe'd support a move by the state Legislature to get the lateNevada Senator Pat McCarran's statue out of the U-S Capitol givennew disclosures of his racist, anti-Semitic views. Berkley made the comment to reporters following a wide-rangingspeech to state lawmakers - a speech that ranged from SocialSecurity, Iraq and nuclear waste to the statue of 19th CenturyIndian activist and teacher Sarah Winnemucca of Nevada that wasjust placed in the Capitol. Author Michael Ybarra's new biography of McCarran, a senatorfrom Nevada from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, describes himas a vindictive, anti-immigrant supporter of security laws that rancounter to American ideals of law and liberty. Berkley said the state Legislature would have to take the firststep to get rid of McCarran's statue - and --quote-- "if theLegislature decided to go in that direction, they would get noargument from me."

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